Professor Adam Fox

Professional statement

Adam read Medicine and Neuroscience at Cambridge University before completing his clinical training at University College, London. After specialist training in Paediatric Allergy in 2006, he was one of the founding consultants of what is now one of Europe's largest specialist Allergy services, at St Thomas' Hospitals, London. Adam spent 9 years as clinical lead for Allergy (Adult & Paediatric) at Guy's & St Thomas' Hospitals, during which time the service was recognised as an International Centre of Excellence by both the World Allergy Organisation and GALEN (European Asthma & Allergy Network).

He is also a Professor of Paediatric Allergy at King's College London and the founding Director of the KCL Allergy Academy, a postgraduate educational programme, which was a finalist at the BMJ Awards in 2018. Adam chaired the UK Department of Health National Care Pathway for Food Allergy in Childhood and was a member of the National Institute of Healthcare and Clinical Excellence (NICE) clinical guideline development group for the assessment and diagnosis of food allergy in children.

He has been an expert committee member on two MHRA specialist groups and a NICE Health Technology Appraisal and was appointed a NICE non-specialist guideline chair in 2021. He was senior author of the iMAP (International Milk Allergy in Primary Care) guideline, which was awarded the Allergy UK Innovation award in 2018. He previously represented Paediatric Allergy on the NHSE Specialist Paediatrics Clinical Reference Group and chaired the Paediatric Committee of the British Society of Allergy & Clinical Immunology (BSACI). He was elected as BSACI President, the first Paediatrician to hold this position, from October 2018 until 2021, after which he took on the role of Chair of the National Allergy Strategy Group from July 2022.

As part of this, he jointly chairs the Expert Advisory Group for Allergy with the Department of Health & Social Care and is lead for the National Allergy Strategy. In 2024, Adam became only the second person to receive the BSACI Fellows Award in recognition of outstanding contribution to clinical allergy. Adam was awarded ‘Paediatric Allergist of the Year’ from Allergy UK in 2007. His doctoral thesis on peanut allergy received the Raymond Horton Smith prize from Cambridge University in 2012 and he was included in The Times ‘Britain’s 100 Best Children’s Doctor’s’ (2012).

Adam received the William Frankland Award for Outstanding contribution to Allergy from the British Society of Allergy & Clinical Immunology in 2015 and a National Clinical Excellence award from the UK Department of Health in 2016 and 2020. In 2024, Adam became only the second person to receive the BSACI Fellows Award in recognition of outstanding contribution to clinical allergy. Adam has lectured around the world, made numerous documentaries, published over 100 research articles including in top medical journals (NEJM, BMJ, Pediatrics) and is a regular contributor on ITV ‘This Morning’ and BBC Morning Live.

Adam’s private practice, Allergy London was awarded 'Best Allergy Clinic - London' in the 2019 Global Health & Pharma Private Healthcare Awards and Best Allergy Testing Specialists in the 2020 Private Healthcare Awards. He was also recognised by Doctify for 'Excellent Patient Experience' in 2018 and was one of a small number of specialists to receive the ‘Top Doctors award’ in 2018 and again in 2022 from Top Doctors website, voted for by other doctors, asked to nominate who they would choose to go to.

He was also listed in the most recent ‘The Tatler Doctors List’ (2013) of the best 250 UK private medical consultants. Together with two colleagues he established The Food Allergy Immunotherapy Centre at Great Ormond St Hospital in 2021, where he initiated the first patient in the world, outside of the US, on Palforzia (the first licenced food allergy desensitisation product) in October 2021.